Post by Silly Yak on Feb 18, 2011 10:41:16 GMT
Hungary
Budapest
Posted by Mandy on 27/2/2006
.... I went to a restaurant called Poco Loco twice. It is advertised on the Hungarian Coeliac Society website (all in Hungarian but I know someone who is Hungarian). The restaurant is a bit out of the way. It is in Buda, address: 1023 Budapest, Frankel Leo u. 51. You should be able to find it on a decent map. The food is very very ordinary but they do gf pasta and bread. I had the bruschetta with tomato for starters, a tomato based pasta dish for main and a lovely chocolate mouse for pudding and it came to about £6! It is a nice place - nice atmosphere. The menu at this link is the gluten free menu:
www.pocoloco.hu/webset32.cgi?Poc ... @936479948
The word Lisztérzékeny at the top means "person who cannot eat gluten" apparently!
I also ate at a place called Mediterranean Cafe on Liszt Ferenc ter 10. This road/square contains lots of nice bars and cafes and they are all quite civilised and pleasant. All have English menus. At this place I ate chicken breast with mozarella and tomato and chips. I took a risk with the chips but I was fine.
At another place on the same square (Liszt Ferenc ter) I had a gorgeous greek salad. Can't remember the name of the place but it was on the same side of the square as Cafe Mediterranean - about two restaurants further up and had a large frontage and modern interior.
Finally - a couple of doors down from our hotel was a pizza place called Okay Italia on Szent Istvan Korut 20 (Pest). If you can stand watching others eat yummy pizza, you can have salad or steak. I had steak with beef tomatoes and mozarella and fried potatoes (waitress confirmed fried only in oil).
I alsoio resorted to a McDonalds once - these are everywhere.
In terms of buying gf supplies, I did see a Kasiers supermarket which apparently stocks Schar products but I didn't need to check whether they actually had anything.
Overall, there is plenty of choice in terms of salads, chicken and steak. If you are able to get to Poco Loco, although the food is not really restaurant standard, it is so cheap and such a novelty to be able to have a bowl of gf spaghetti whilst out, that it is worth going to. I felt 100% confident that they knew exactly what they were talking about. Their menus in the restaurant indicates what is gf with the crossed grain symbol.
One of my favourite tips for city breaks is to take crackers, a jar of nice gf chutney or pickle and some processed cheese slices and a plastic knife and fork. As long as the hotel room has a mini bar you can store the cheese and pickle in there. It makes for a handy snack. I also take cereal bars and snickers and muffins. I wished this time that I had taken bread and toaster bags as there was a toaster on the breakfast buffet bar at the hotel so I could have done my own.......
Budapest
Posted by Mandy on 27/2/2006
.... I went to a restaurant called Poco Loco twice. It is advertised on the Hungarian Coeliac Society website (all in Hungarian but I know someone who is Hungarian). The restaurant is a bit out of the way. It is in Buda, address: 1023 Budapest, Frankel Leo u. 51. You should be able to find it on a decent map. The food is very very ordinary but they do gf pasta and bread. I had the bruschetta with tomato for starters, a tomato based pasta dish for main and a lovely chocolate mouse for pudding and it came to about £6! It is a nice place - nice atmosphere. The menu at this link is the gluten free menu:
www.pocoloco.hu/webset32.cgi?Poc ... @936479948
The word Lisztérzékeny at the top means "person who cannot eat gluten" apparently!
I also ate at a place called Mediterranean Cafe on Liszt Ferenc ter 10. This road/square contains lots of nice bars and cafes and they are all quite civilised and pleasant. All have English menus. At this place I ate chicken breast with mozarella and tomato and chips. I took a risk with the chips but I was fine.
At another place on the same square (Liszt Ferenc ter) I had a gorgeous greek salad. Can't remember the name of the place but it was on the same side of the square as Cafe Mediterranean - about two restaurants further up and had a large frontage and modern interior.
Finally - a couple of doors down from our hotel was a pizza place called Okay Italia on Szent Istvan Korut 20 (Pest). If you can stand watching others eat yummy pizza, you can have salad or steak. I had steak with beef tomatoes and mozarella and fried potatoes (waitress confirmed fried only in oil).
I alsoio resorted to a McDonalds once - these are everywhere.
In terms of buying gf supplies, I did see a Kasiers supermarket which apparently stocks Schar products but I didn't need to check whether they actually had anything.
Overall, there is plenty of choice in terms of salads, chicken and steak. If you are able to get to Poco Loco, although the food is not really restaurant standard, it is so cheap and such a novelty to be able to have a bowl of gf spaghetti whilst out, that it is worth going to. I felt 100% confident that they knew exactly what they were talking about. Their menus in the restaurant indicates what is gf with the crossed grain symbol.
One of my favourite tips for city breaks is to take crackers, a jar of nice gf chutney or pickle and some processed cheese slices and a plastic knife and fork. As long as the hotel room has a mini bar you can store the cheese and pickle in there. It makes for a handy snack. I also take cereal bars and snickers and muffins. I wished this time that I had taken bread and toaster bags as there was a toaster on the breakfast buffet bar at the hotel so I could have done my own.......